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Quotes About Goodbye

No orchard's the worse for the wintriest storm; But one thing about it, it mustn't get warm. How often already you've had to be told, Keep cold, young orchard. Good-bye and keep cold. Dread fifty above more than fifty below. I have to be gone for a season or so.
~ Robert Frost
I don't want to bother your father, but I'll come again if that's all right. Yes. I think it would be. I don't know that he's very religious. No. Not in any orthodox way. I understand that. In his own way perhaps. Perhaps. Well. I'll be going. He held out his hand to shake hers and instead she surprised him and hugged him. He was a good deal taller than she was. Thank you for coming, she said again.
~ Kent Haruf
Good-bye, Mariam." And, with that, unaware that she is weeping
~ Khaled Hosseini
Will your dad freak if I kiss you good-bye?" he asked.
~ Kim Harrison
I gotta go," I wheezed. "This is shitty, you know? How do you live like this?" "Rachel!" he cried, but it was too late, (Rachel and Al)
~ Kim Harrison
Jenks made a face as he levered himself up on the sill. "Much as I enjoy this horrific outpouring of estrogen, I'm going to go say good-bye to my wife. Let me know when you're ready. I'll be in the garden—probably next to the stink weed.
~ Kim Harrison
Anytime people do something consciously for the last time, Samuel Johnson is reported to have remarked, they feel sad.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
A sudden douche of terror then squirted itself all over Dixon. After a moment he realized that this was because he had a plan and was about to carry it out. He panted a little with the enormity of it, then drained his glass and said quaveringly: Here goes then. Good-bye for now.
~ Kingsley Amis
I'll exile my thoughts if they think of you again, and I will rip my lips out if they say your name once more. Now if you do exist, I will tell you my final word in life or in death, I tell you goodbye.
~ Knut Hamsun
I'll miss you most of all scarecrow.
~ L. Frank Baum/Samuel Clemens
I'll never see them again. I know that. And they know that. And knowing this, we say farewell.
~ Haruki Murakami
It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Well, fallen angel. Now you're quite ruined," she said, reverting to the formal you. "No, aren't you afraid? Well, goodbye! You'll get back on your own, right?
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. —Anatole France
~ Yong Zhao
We were doing everything we could to avoid the moment we would both go our separate ways.
~ Deborah Levy
The sun appeared over the hillside. "I'm tired, Tom." "It's okay to go home,' he choked. "Hold my hand?" His arms tightened around her and his fingers interlaced with hers. She closed her eyes against the brightness. "I love you." "I love you too," he whispered. Jennifer died feeling the warmth of the rising sun
~ Dee Henderson
I can't set my hopes too high, 'Cause every hello ends with a goodbye.
~ Demi Lovato
I'm not ready for you to go." His voice was thick and smoky.
~ Denise Hunter
I was so emotional. Choked up. I could hardly talk all day. I'll be cleaning out my trailer and saying goodbye soon, realizing what a wonderful experience this has been.
~ Dennis Franz
Until next time," Hansard said, "when hopefully, you won't have my father's vomit in your hair.
~ Derek Landy
If you're brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.
~ Paulo Coelho
I have had a happy life and thank the Lord. Goodbye and may God bless all!
~ Christopher McCandless
Everyone struggles against despair, but it always wins in the end. It has to. It's the thing that lets us say goodbye.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
Leaving is hard, even when a great adventure awaits you.
~ Jen Hatmaker